Posted on 06/11/2020 8:19:19 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative
What is this? #allitalianlivesmatter?
But no, they were murdered because the were Unionists.
“I stopped reading the article as the Trump bashing lies started, revealing that it was not so much history as hit piece. Bah.”
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Ditto. Same here.
Sneaky aren’t they? A Progressive is a Progressive is a Progressive. Can’t help themselves.
The author likely thought no one would catch on, but would instead just soak it all up and start thinking just like him. Some “Kickass Conservative” indeed.
Only select phrases are translated.
I won’t read anything from BarfFeed.
Here’s where it starts to go downhill:
“America now stands more divided over immigration than it has since the 1920s, cleaved between two nationalisms — one pluralistic, one exclusive — each claiming to represent the country as it should be. These were placed in vivid contrast at the Republican and Democratic conventions, where the Republican nominee vowed to ban Muslim immigration and Democrats introduced the country to the father of a slain American Muslim war hero.
“Donald Trump’s entire candidacy has been premised on purging the United States of the foreign enemies within as a means of restoring national greatness. Among his most trusted surrogates are men like Paul Manafort, Chris Christie, and Rudy Giuliani, who now speak of Muslims and Mexicans in the same tone and language that was once reserved for their Italian-American ancestors, targeted by the nativist movement that began in the late 19th century.”
Gag me.
>>>What is this? #allitalianlivesmatter?
But no, they were murdered because the were Unionists<<<
Are you saying that Italian Lives don’t Matter? #;^)
I just started this Thread to add some Historical perspective to what is going on today.
Tried to Post an Article from Wikipedia that explained what happened but it isn’t allowed here. This Article came up on Google and looked to be informational. Oh well...
On Dec 26th, 1862 there were 38 Dakota Indians hung in Mankato, MN. They had killed settlers on the prairie.
>>>On Dec 26th, 1862 there were 38 Dakota Indians hung in Mankato, MN. They had killed settlers on the prairie<<<
Was it a Lynching of Innocents or an Execution of Murderers?
The Italians who were Lynched in New Orleans were Innocent Men. They were Lynched because they were Italian.
There is a difference . Unlike every other group you mention, American Blacks did not come here voluntarily. Govt efforts likely set back if not destroyed the movement of Blacks into the mainstream, particularly its role in destroying the black family . But the trials and success of other immigrant groups should not be used as a measurement of the status of blacks in America.
Another event sent down the Memory Hole. Unionized strikers murder at least 17 non union workers in Illinois:
Illinois town honors coal miners killed in 1922 massacre
ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
June 20, 2015
HERRIN, Ill. (AP) — Nearly a century after literally burying its violent past, a southern Illinois community is belatedly coming to terms with one of the nation’s deadliest labor conflicts, an episode in which some victims were paraded down city streets and humiliated before hundreds of cheering onlookers before having their throats slit.
Most of the victims of the Herrin Massacre — three union coal miners on strike and 20 replacement workers and guards — were buried in June 1922 in a cluster of unmarked graves in an old pauper’s field at the city cemetery, forgotten by time and a collective desire to, if not ignore history, not call undue attention to it in a town that’s still a union stronghold.
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“No one really mentioned the massacre. It was a black eye,” said retired miner Bill Sizemore, 59, who said he didn’t know about it for most of his life. “The people of Herrin weren’t proud of it. They all felt like it was going to wash away like the river.”
But since 2009, when a local talk radio host’s quest to honor a World War I veteran among the massacre victims led to an excavation of the grave site, the city started to change its approach, despite pockets of resistance. On Thursday, the anniversary of the mass burial, Herrin will unveil a monument that names 17 of the victims.
“There has been an awakening,” said Sizemore, a city council member with deep roots in the coal community who helped persuade his colleagues to endorse the project. “The city of Herrin has embraced its past.”
That wasn’t always the case. Scott Doody, the former radio host who enlisted geologists, a forensic anthropologist and a retired county sheriff, said he was threatened with arrest by then-Herrin Mayor Vic Ritter. The dispute eventually went to court, with the archaeology team prevailing after the city halted the dig and blocked access to cemetery records.
Ritter, who resigned in November after 15 years at the helm of the town of 12,500 that’s about two hours southeast of St. Louis, said he supports the new grave marker but opposed the dig, in part because of the disruption to nearby graves.
“I don’t know what they gained by digging them up,” said Ritter, whose grandfather was a coal miner. “I don’t think anybody tried to hide anything.”
So far, the dig has identified the location of eight victims — some of whose remains were beneath more recent burials or beside cemetery plots sold to unsuspecting residents — and more than 100 previously unidentified unmarked graves. Another excavation is planned next month.
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The Herrin clash occurred amid a nationwide coal strike by the United Mine Workers of America and followed deadly strikes in West Virginia and southern Colorado.
With the help of armed guards from a Chicago private detective agency, Southern Illinois Coal Co. owner W. J. Lester defied the strike that had idled nearly three dozen other local mines and hired replacement workers — still sometimes called scabs in the Herrin area — for his above-ground strip mine between Herrin and the town of Marion.
On June 21, 1922, three union workers were killed in a shootout between the mine guards and strikers. Strikers surrounded the mine the next day and the local sheriff, himself an ex-miner, ignored calls to summon the Illinois National Guard. He assured the 50 to 60 strikebreakers — badly outnumbered and fearing for their lives — of safe passage out of town once they surrendered.
Instead, the captives were forced on a miles-long march, lined up along a barbed-wire fence and then told to run for their lives as the mob opened fire. Some of those who managed to escape were lynched, others had to crawl on their hands and knees while bound together. Several were killed at the Herrin cemetery where they’d later be unceremoniously buried.
A subsequent coroner’s inquest determined that the strikebreakers were killed by “parties unknown” and blamed their death on the coal company. Two trials were held, but no one was convicted.
The victims were from far and wide: Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York; Boston, Chicago, Russia and Slovakia.
Among those named on the new monument is Robert Anderson, a mine guard who was a 25-year-old World War I veteran from Sparta, Michigan. He was shot, hung from a tree and then riddled by bullets, according to Eastern Illinois geologist Steven Di Naso.
“He wasn’t a hero,” said nephew Chuck Anderson, a retired family doctor in suburban Atlanta. “I don’t think he had much of a political sense of what he was doing (as a strikebreaker). It was a job. ... But he didn’t get his life or his contributions acknowledged.”
You haven’t a prayer of winning.
Domino’s Pizza is about as Italian as tube socks.
My Italian Great Grandfather was called a n*gger when he got off the boat-by Irishmen!
Oh, phooey, I linked a French version, sorry.
I guess you can get it on HBO or something.
>>>But the trials and success of other immigrant groups should not be used as a measurement of the status of blacks in America.
Interesting comment. I live in a predominately Black County in MS, having moved here from CA about a year ago to be near my Wife’s Family. They Semi-Retired here years ago.
I noticed her Family Members have “evolved” from their born and raised CA Liberal view of Race Relations since they moved here. They no longer have any residual White Guilt now that they realize that the Black Population alone is responsible for their failures and successes.
We have increasing Black in Black Crime which is very sad while White on Black Crime is practically non existent.
Like most other places in our Country, the Blacks tend to hang with the Blacks and the Whites tend to hang with the Whites. Tribalism is alive and well, but the Liberal viewpoint is that Tribalism is Bigotry, a false narrative to say the least.
Contrary to Leftist thought, the Deep South has numerous Bi Racial Couples and a large Gay and Lesbian Population. The difference here is that everyone has a Live and Let Live attitude and a strong God Fearing belief in maintaining a Civil Society.
>>>Domino’s Pizza is about as Italian as tube socks<<<
Wats a matta, youse don’t likea my Tuba Socks?
Wondering why the headline even says, "Largest Mass Lynching in U.S. History," when the article then goes on to say that it wasn't?
Still, the fact that many different kinds of people were lynched is important for people to know because it gives more perspective to history.
They don’t go with your Italian loafers.
“Wats a matta, youse don’t likea my Tuba Socks?”
>>>They don’t go with your Italian loafers.<<<
Youse calling my Paisanos Loafers? LOL
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